when I first came to Horse Camp in 1953 when I was 5 years old through I guess about 2004 it had these huge full tree roof joists to hold up the roof when it was covered by 10 to 50 feet of snow in winters sometimes. However, this likely doesn't happen now much or at all because of Global Climate changes and things becoming warmer generally speaking all over.
I'm thinking that they brought these beams in by helicopter because there are no roads to this location at all and it's all wilderness area. So, like they sometimes take trees by helicopter they did the same thing with these big metal beams for roof joists there too likely.
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The Shasta Alpine Hut was built in 1922
with monies donated by Matthew Hall McAlister, a prominent Sierra Club
member at that time. It was originally constructed of local materials
including volcanic rock and Shasta red fir. The deteriorating roof and
trusses were replaced in 2004.
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